I did my PPL exams at Bournemouth in a week with the exception of Air Law which I had done before. This was with a well advertised Instructor / Examiner. There was three of us in total and we did the studies in the day and sat the exam in the evening and it worked fine for me all be it very tiring, but at least they were done!
I was finding before this that I was coming home from work in the evening sitting down to study and promptly falling asleep! This lack of exam progress was meaning that I could not undertake my QCC and I was just flying around with an Instructor basically wasting my money to a certain extent! I was also getting very frustrated with my lack of progress!
So I took a week off work booked into a medium priced hotel with my Partner, she went shopping or to the beach in the day whilst I went Studying at the Instructors house. After sitting an exam each evening I came back and we went for a meal and it worked great, but like I say very tiring!
Two of us passed the exams ok in the week but the third guy who was Hungarian struggled a bit and had to come back the following week at no extra cost to complete them.
As far as I was concerned it was the best thing I ever did and took the pressure off and allowed me to concentrate on the Practical flying when I got back home. My Partner was also happy because she enjoyed her week in Bournemouth!